Bonnie Erbe: “Why is it being applied to a situation where you have mass migration? It’s not mass sex trafficking [on 2008 Bush law].”

Gay Rights

Gay Rights: Title VII is being argued to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Del. Norton: “When a court interprets a statute they have to interpret the words. Interpreting the words, it seems to me, that [U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly] is on solid ground.”

Francesca Chambers: “I think it’s kind of dangerous to conflate the two things with sex and to say gender discrimination is the same exact thing.”

Patrice Lee: “No one should be discriminated against, that's the bottom line, but now we also have to remember religious freedom in this country.”

Patricia Sosa: “You could never justify race discrimination in this country, well we wanna get in the same place in terms of sexual orientation. ”

Bonnie Erbe: “The LGBTQ community has made much greater progress towards civil rights than women have in this country.”

Teach A Woman To Fish

In her new book Ritu Sharma explains how to empower women abroad to combat poverty worldwide.

Patrice Lee: “Among millennials though we see that they’re very much engaged and committed to what they’re buying and linking the two.”

Patrice Lee: "I do like that with this entire book that it really shows that poverty alleviation and development is really about giving the individual the right to own their future and not just throwing empty government dollars at problems."

Ritu Sharma: “What Women Thrive is trying to do now is to take that shift in awareness and turn it into a shift in action.”

Ritu Sharma: “When women have money and they have their own resources, the rates of violence against them go down. Those two things are two sides of the same coin and we need to address them together.”

Ritu Sharma: “[T]he truth is that our US government can and is in a lot of cases doing the right thing and doing it well. But that’s not what we hear in the news.”

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